Correcting a student's thesis or article still is a good way to learn english, and especially to discover things you are used to say since decades are likely wrong.
Latest discoveries for me:
In which I propose an integrated #academic#conference team to be established at #universities, to make the process of organising and running academic conferences much easier - and reduce the workload on #academics - who don't usually have event management as a core skill.
#academic#academicchatter
Do you also have colleagues who, when meeting external visitors, tell that "the real research" is done in their institute, and not in the neighbouring one (which happens to be yours)?
Or are you luckier, and your colleague are less pathetic and less affected by egomaniac problems...?
Last few hours to submit feedback on the white paper by the EU commission, on the possible change of R&D policies to include "dual use" (-> military application 💣 ) technologies in H2020 and following programs.
On #academic#twitter as practiced by #DiabeticOfEnlightenment: "The truth is I love literary criticism. I never want to be confused with some type of guy that’s all anti-theory, “humanities jargon is meaningless,” “let’s get back to philology.” I love academic arguments. And if I make fun of something scholarly online, I’ve almost certainly spent hours and hours reading and thinking about it, so the joke’s ultimately on me."
It's our first time there and we'd love connect.
Would you like to exchange best practices, tips, and/or knowledge over coffee? We are interested in #communication strategies for libraries and everything #OpenScience-related. Let us know if you want to meet up!
I joined a zoom call with scientists colleague in #palestine, promoted by colleagues at the University of Bologna, to try setting up a funding line for hosting visiting students/researchers, and provide remote lectures there.
One exchange stood out:
"It's difficult to extend this to academics in #Gaza, because based on our information, they are either dead, or have fled the region"
it is also that time on the year, in which the university performs the internal evaluation of performances and results through bibliometric outputs, and awesome two dimensional plots like this start to circulate
Awesome, there is some chance that some of the students doing this for no reason to their school in Bologna will also become my student in a few years 😩
Suspect this is a sign of #Spring and that soon there will be little ones rolling around! ♥️
Wonder if the young will resemble the adults or if there is a #larval stage? Any experts want to weigh in? #Mastodon#Fediverse is home to so many niche #academic specialties!
I have a perversion to disclose here.
Please don't judge me.
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I love editing stuff, both my stuff and my students and collaborators's stuff.
So at present I can edit via overleaf about 4 papers in progress by my students, 1 master thesis, 1 paper of mine under review and another in preparation.
Angry emails from the computing centre for pressing me to urgently submit the review of a computing project I have never agreed to review, also because they have never sent me any request of reviewing it.
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Fun question: If I am unaffiliated and I want to do a survey of people's experiences of the eclipse from a birding perspective, what do I do to pass IRB before thinking about publication, or do I just... skip that step?
My small poll has ended https://mastodon.social/
and I suspect I might have found a tiny effect, which I sort of expected (at least because it's in me):
maybe scientists care a bit less about "coherence" of views, when they debate important things in life/society/politics, compared to people with a different background.
It's not super striking, but coherence is very much important for 64% of scientist, but to 77% of non-scientists.
Does anyone know whether there is a project to stock libraries in developing countries with unwanted academic journals from our offices? A colleague is downsizing and has over a decade of JACS that might end up in a recycling bin if there is no alternative. Can you spread the word as I'm curious about what we might be able to do. #academic#sharing#journals@dbellingradt do you and your histodons and bookdons know about this kind of thing?
Please, #bookstodon and everyone else , recommend your very favorite books and other #information to me. I'll read anything, audio or ebook or maybe even paper #book, #website or recurring graphics or whatever.
Feed me.
Handbook of Genocide Studies by David J. Simon, 2023
Providing an intellectual biography of the challenging concept of genocide from inception to present day, this topical Handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach to shed new light on the events, processes, and legacies in the field.
Everyone, drop what you are doing - SPURIOUS CORRELATION now has a companion site, SPURIOUS SCHOLAR - that WRITES AN ACADEMIC PAPER based on the spurious correlation! Because "if p < 0.05, why not publish?" 😂
🎧Rashid Gabdulhakov developed two fully open online courses that aim to help non-Western #scholars to navigate the Western system of #academic knowledge production.
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